Printing seal or edition headings and late or stop-press news



July 7,1925. 1,545,194

' E. T. MORRIS ET AL PRINTING SEAL OR EDITION READINGS AND LATE 0R STOP PRESS NEWS Filed April 6, 1923 Patented July 7, 1925.

UNITED STATES j 1,545,194 PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD THOMAS. Mounts AND THOMAS JOSEPH MILLS, or LONDON, ENGLAND, AS-

SIGNOR'S, BY MESNEIASSIGNMENTS, TO A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

rninrrns SEAL on nnrrron nnnnmes AND LATE on STOP-PRESS News.

Application filed April 6,

To all whom it may concern." I A Be it known that we, EDWARD" THOMAS Monnrs and THOMAS Josnrrr MILLs, both subjects of the King of Great Britain, residing at 109 Borough Road, London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Printing Seal or Edition Headings and Late or Stop-Press News, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore the cylinders for printing seal or edition headings and late or stop press news have usually been slidably mounted upon a rotating shaft and supplied with ink byseparate inking mechanism slidably sup-- ported on a stretcher bar extending across the printing machine. \Vith such an arrangement the position of the edition headings or late news cylinders could only be altered within certain limitations. It was not possible, for example, to print the edition heading and late news in the same column of a paper in different colours nor in adjacent columns, nor could the edition heading cylinder, if arranged to print on the left of the late news cylinder, readily be transferred so as to print on the right of the late news cylinder and vice versa;

In another usual method of printing edition headings and late news, a single cyl-' inder was employed to print the edition heading and the late news in adjacent columns, the inking mechanism for the edition heading, and the inking mechanism for the late news, being combined and carried on the same support. lVith this arrangement also it was impossible to print the edition heading and the late news in the samecolumn in different colours. Moreover, if the edition heading was originally printed on the left of the late news, the cylinder could not readily be altered so as to print it on the right, and vice versa.

The main object of our invention is to provide means whereby the edition heading and the late news can be printed in the same column in two different colours.

According to our invention the cylinders for printing the edition headings and the late news are slidably mounted upon separate shafts spaced a suflicient distance apart to enable the cylinders to be moved past one another, and the inking mechanisms for supplying the cylinders are also supported on a stretcher bar or bars in such a 1923.. Serial No. 630,210.

mannerthat they can also be moved past one another. Y I

In one way of carrying out our invention the inking mechanisms are supported one on either side of a stretcher bar which may conveniently be of U or box girder form having on each side a slot to receive the bolts by means of which the inking mechanism is secured, the said stretcher bar being located between the shafts carrying the cylinders. WVith this arrangement the seal oredition heading can be printed in any position on any page across the impression cylinder, and the late or stop press news can also be printed in any position on any page across the impression cylinder,

and further the seal or edition headingand the late or stop press news can if desired be printed in the same column in two different colours.

The accompanying drawing, which shows those parts of a printing machine necessary to illustrate theinvention, is an end elevation partly in section.

1 is an impression cylinder, 2a cylinder for printing edition headings and 3 a cylinder for printing late news. The cylinders 2 and 3 are slidably mountedupon shafts 4, 5, spaced a suflicient distance apart to enable the cylinders 2, 3, to be moved past one another. Located between the cylinders 2 and 3 is a stretcher bar 6 in each side of which a T shaped slot 7 is provided. 8, 9, are frames carrying the usual inking mechanism for the cylinders 2 and 3 respectively. The frames 8, 9, are slidably secured one on either side of the stretcher bar 6 by bolts 10, the heads of which engage the T shaped slots 7.

den and secured in any desired position on their shafts 4, 5, and the frames 8, 9, and

inking mechanism are slidden along the onda 00., me, on NEW YORK, .n.

stretcher bar 6 into position for inking the 7 cylinders 2, 3, and secured in position by the bolts 10.

What we claim is 1. In a printing machine, the combination of a shaft, a cylinder for printing edition headings slidably mounted thereon, a second shaft, a cylinder for printing late news slidably mounted on the second shaft, the said said shafts being spaced a sufiicient distance apartto enable the cylinders to be moved past :one another, rseparate inking mechanisms for supplying. the cylinders andlmeans for supporting the inking mechanlsms. in V. such a -manner that the sald inking mechahisms can ,be moved past one another.

"QfIn a printing machine, the combination of a shaft, a cylinder for printing edition .headingstslidably mounted "thereon, ;a second shaft, a cylinder for printing late news slidably mountedoir thesecond shaft, the said shafts being spaced a sufficient distance apartto enable'the cylinders to be movedypast -one; another, :a stretcher bar, inking mechanism for supplying one'of the cylinders slidably mounted on one side of .the stretcher bar, and inking mechanism for t supplying the other cylinder slidaloly mounted on theother side-ofthe stretcher bar.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing this 26thday of March, 1923;

EDWARD THOMAS MORRIS. THOMAS JOSEPH MILLS.

-:as our inventionwehave signed our names 2 

